836 PARTIAL PARALYSIS. 
haste and the servant has no time to lose. The poor animal endeavors 
to obey; it squeezes and twists its body: the head is seized, a blow is 
given, and the difficulty is vanquished. But at what a cost! One bone 
of the spine has been injured. Bone is slow in its developments. No 
immediate consequence results; but months afterward, the injured place 
throws out a spicula of bone, no larger than a needle’s point, perhaps, 
but it presses upon the spinal marrow, and lasting stringhalt is the 
effect. 
Of course no drug can reach the part affected; no cunning prepara- 
tion can remove even a needle’s point from the interior of the spinal 
canal. The stinghalt, once exhibited, is beyond cure, and never disap- 
pears but with the life. However, it mostly affects high-spirited, nerv- 
ous horses, and not being generally observable during progression, some 
of the quadrupeds thus diseased sell for large sums. 
PARTIAL PARALYSIS. 
Paralysis, in the horse, save when it appears toward the termination 
of violent disorders, is never more than partial. It locates itself in the 
THE UNSTEADY WALK OF A HORSE WHEN SUFFERING UNDER PARTIAL PARALYSIS OF THE HIND LEGS. 
hind limbs, and, though it does not destroy all motion, yet it destroys all 
strength or utility. The power to move with speed is entirely lost, nor 
is the ability to progress at a slower pace by any means assured. One 
